Natelson Rob Archives - Independence Institute

Convention of States: How the States Meet to Bypass Congress 0
- September 13, 2017
This is why Article V of the U.S. Constitution authorizes a convention of states as a way to propose needed constitutional amendments Congress refuses to propose.
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A Response to a “Living Constitutionalist”0
- August 24, 2017
. . . law professors often corrupt their understanding of the Constitution with their own political preferences. . .
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Part II: What Can We Do About Legal Realism and Its Promotion of Judicial Activism?0
- July 27, 2017
. . . the problem centers in specific institutions: American law schools and the higher reaches of the judiciary.
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Part I: Judicial activism: Here’s a core reason for it you’ve never heard about 0
- July 24, 2017
The Founders erected the American legal system to operate in the context of Anglo-American judicial values. The rules placed expressly or implicitly in the Constitution . . . were designed to operate in that context. However, the context changed.
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Drafting a Balanced Budget Amendment: It’s tougher than you might think 0
- July 21, 2017
Of course, it is one thing to criticize, but another to try to craft something better.
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If you want to win a Supreme Court case, it helps to play to “progressive” values 0
- July 18, 2017
Observe how many of the Left’s ideological buttons the plaintiff’s lawyers pushed: non-profit, recycling, mandatory government fee, poverty, disabilities, environment—and that interminably-overused mantra: community.
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